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The Lake Bluff School Caucus nominates and supports candidates for both the Lake Bluff Elementary District 65 and Lake Forest High School District 115 school boards. Nominating for District 115 is shared between the Lake Bluff School Caucus and the Lake Forest Caucus. The Lake Bluff School Caucus nominates for two of the seven District 115 seats. The Lake Forest Caucus nominates 4 seats. In the past, the nomination for an unincorporated (i.e., Knollwood) seat was done by the Lake Bluff Caucus. We are in negotiations with the Lake Forest Caucus to determine who nominates that seat.
Below is information on both of these districts. Please visit their respective web sites for more information.
LAKE BLUFF ELEMENTARY DISTRICT 65
Lake Bluff School District 65 has provided excellence in education for children for over 100 years. The District is 5.6 square miles in size with a 2006-2007 student enrollment of 1110 in grades kindergarten through eight. District 65 students attend Lake Forest High School.
Three schools make up the district:
- East School, Grades K-2, 325 students
- Central School, Grades 3-5, 367 students
- Middle School, Grades 6-8, 418 students
Curriculum highlights include:
- A total educational program with emphasis on core skills in math, language arts, science, social studies, and foreign language
- A differentiated program to meet the individual needs of gifted and talented students
- Regularly scheduled classes in art, band, drama, computers, literary applied arts, music, and physical education at designated grade levels
- An elementary foreign language program in Spanish, grades K-6
- French and Spanish instruction at the middle school level
- Learning-assisted and special education services at each school
- Drug and substance abuse education, grades K-8
- An environmental education program including field trips and other outdoor experiences
- Horizons after-school enrichment program and Kaleidoscope summer enrichment program
- An emphasis on the fine and performing arts
Current issues facing the school district include seeking approval from voters of a referendum in the April 2007 election for school building bonds in the amount of $24.4 million to build a new K-5 school on West Washington Avenue (Central School site) and to renovate the Middle School.
LAKE FOREST HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT 115
Lake Forest High School serves the residents of Lake Forest, Lake Bluff, and Knollwood. A community of 22,000, primarily business and professional residents, evidences a strong demand for excellence. These communities are exceptionally supportive of its many diverse institutions. For Lake Forest High School, this assistance takes the form of college scholarships, foreign exchange programs, purchase of special equipment, underwriting leadership training, and summer workshops for students.
Originally built in 1935, the facilities have had substantial renovation. The school facilities include a studio theater, a renovated auditorium theater, a complete array of special education facilities, computer labs, a student publication center, a photography lab, a television studio with a collection of 5,500 curriculum-related videotapes, a computerized library with CD-ROM information retrieval, a field house, a climbing wall, and a swimming pool with diving well. A successful referendum in November 2006 will allow construction of a music wing, an improved and enlarged library, an updated student cafeteria and commons area, and additional classroom space.
The average tenure of faculty members at Lake Forest High School is 9.9 years, and more than 77 percent of the faculty hold master’s degrees or beyond. Members of the faculty have been instrumental in the development of Advanced Placement courses, serve on a number of state curriculum committees, and have authored articles in professional journals and textbooks as well as novels.